Sir John Mandeville says that the beak of the Phœnix “is coloured blew as _ynde_.” _Voiage and Travaile_, &c., p. 58. ed. 1725. Page 25. v. 20. _Geyne_] i. e. Against. ———— _the emeraud comendable;_ _Relucent smaragd_] _Emeraud_ (emerald) and _smaragd_ are generally considered as synonymous; but here Skelton makes a distinction between them. So too Drayton in his _Muses Elizium_, 1630. p. 78; and Chamberlayne in his _Pharonnida_, 1659. B. ii. c. 4. p. 150. And so R. Holme: “The _Emrauld_ is green.”—“The _Smaradge_ is of an excellent fresh green, far passing any Leaf.” _Ac. of Armory_, 1688. B. ii. pp. 39, 41. James I. in his _Quair_ mentions “The _panther_ like unto the _smaragdyne_.” Chalmers’s _Poet. Rem. of Scot. Kings_, p. 85. v. 22. _perspectyue_] Which generally signifies a glass to look through, seems here, from the context, to mean some sort of reflecting glass. v. 23. _Illumynyd_] i. e. Adorned. v. 26. _Gayne_] i. e. Against. Page 25. v. 29. _Remorse_] Means commonly in early writers,—pity; but that sense is unsuited to the present passage: it seems to be used here for—remembrance, recollection. —— _most goodlyhod_] i. e. perfect goodness. v. 33. _praty_] i. e. pretty. Page 26. v. 40. _mastres_] i. e. mistress. v. 41. _nys_] i. e. ne is—is not. v. 43. _more desyrous_] i. e. more desirable. _Qd_] i. e. Quod, quoth. v. 11. _rede_] i. e. advise. v. 12. _fals poynt_] “This _fals poynt_ ... Hæc _fraus_.” Hormanni _Vulgaria_, sig. s viii. ed. 1530. v. 13. _fell_] i. e. skin. Page 27. v. 15. _lesard_] In the Latin above, the corresponding word is _anguis_: long after Skelton’s time, the poor harmless lizard was reckoned venomous; so in Shakespeare’s _Third Part of Henry VI._, act ii. sc. 2., “_lizards’_ dreadful stings.” v. 1. _rasyd_] i. e. torn, wounded. Skelton in his _Woffully Araid_ has “See how a spere my hert dyd _race_.” v. 45. vol. i. 142. v. 3. _vaynys_ i. e. veins. —— _blo_] i. e. livid. “_Blo_, blewe and grene coloured, as ones body is after a drie stroke, _iaunastre_.” Palsgrave’s _Lesclar. de la Lang. Fr._, 1530. fol. lxxxiiii. (Table of Adiect.). v. 5. _ouerthwart_] i. e. cross, perverse, adverse. v. 7. _dyscure_] i. e. discover. MANERLY MARGERY MYLK AND ALE. Skelton mentions this piece among his works, in the _Garlande of Laurell_, v. 1198. vol. i. 409. Sir John Hawkins, who printed it together with the music, says that it “appears to have been set by William Cornish of the Chapel Royal in the reign of Henry vii.” _Hist. of Music_, iii. 2. Page 28. v. 1. _besherewe yow_] i. e. curse you,—confound you! —— _be my fay_] i. e. by my faith. v. 2. _This wanton clarkes be nyse all way_] i. e. These wanton scholars be always foolish, inclined to folly, to toyish tricks: compare our author’s _Phyllyp Sparowe_; “Phyllyp, though he were _nyse_, In him it was no vyse,” &c. v. 173. vol. i. 56. Page 28. v. 3. _Avent_] i. e. Avaunt. —— _popagay_] i. e. parrot.